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uiten tetes @anni ffite ROBERT S. STUBBS, yOF DOVER, HAMPSHIRE Letters.Patent No. 72,761, dated December 31, 1867.

IMPROVED PASTENINGS FOB. BOTTLE-STOPPERS'.

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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THIISIT4 PRESENTS MAY COME:

Be it known that I, ROBERTS. STUBBS, of Dover, in the county ofStratford, and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in StopperFastenings forv Bottles; and I do hereby decla-rethe same to he fully described in the following specification,and/represented in the accompanying drawings, of which-4 Figure 1 is a.top view,

Figure 2 n. side elevation, and

Figure 3 a horizontal section of' such fastening, as applied to the neckand stopper or cork of a. bottle.

In such drawings, A denotes the neck and B the stopper of a bottle, thelatter being inserted in the mouth of the former. The fastening iscomposed not only of a. strap, C, but of a metallic yoke, D. `This yokeis a. wire, bent in a semicrcular or arched form, and with arms orhooks, a b, at its ends, or with one hook at one end and an eye at theother.

In using the fastening, the yoke is to be applied to the bottle-neck, soas to extend partially around it, just below the swell, c, thereof.The'strap is tol be fastened to lone ofthe links, (or either the hook orthe eye, when the yoke has n hook and eye, as set forth,) and afterbeing carried around the neck, or that lside of it opposite to thatagainst which the yoke .is placed, is to be passed through the otherVhook, and thence carried up, over,

across, and down upon the stopper or' cork, and hooked 'upon 'the firsthook. When en eye is-used, the strap' may be run through the eye,and-next be passed up and drawn between the top of the cork and thatpart of the strap which may go across such top, or it may go through a,slot made in the strap over the cork. This-makes a very secure fastener,and one which may he easily detached or applied, as circumstances mayrequire.

The strap may be wholly of leather or some proper equivalent, or it maybe partially of leather and partiallyfof wire or metal. The strap, byits arrangement-with the yoke, serves, when tightened, to draw the yokeinto close contact with the bottle-neck. -The strap may have holes init'to receivethc end of the yoke, as the tongue of a buckle goes intoits strap. l

I claim the said bottle-stopper fastener, as composed ofthe curved yokeand the strap, constructed and applied 'together in manner and so as tooperate substantially as specified. v

-I also claim the arrangement of the yoke and the strap with the neckand cork of a bottle, in manner substantially as specified.

l ROBERT S. STUBBS.

Witnesses:

H. I. Hum), THOMAS E. SAwYER.

